Posted by Jennifer Janichek
Breaking News
Monday, October 27th, 2008
Estimates range from 300,000 to more than 900,000 former Florida felons who’ll be staying home on Election Day because voting rights were taken–Many of these individuals are locked out of civic engagement because of previous drug charges.
Posted by Jennifer Janichek
Breaking News
Monday, October 27th, 2008
The differences among the two presidential candidates are sharp, including that of drug policies.
Posted by Jennifer Janichek
Breaking News
Thursday, October 16th, 2008
The University of California – Los Angeles issued a new report on California’s Prop. 36, also known as the Substance Abuse and Crime Prevention Act of 2000.
Posted by Jennifer Janichek
Breaking News
Thursday, October 16th, 2008
Oregon voters are faced with two competing measures that could expand the prison industrial complex by over $1 billion.
Posted by Jennifer Janichek
Breaking News
Wednesday, October 15th, 2008
The demand for meth and prohibition of its ingredients is re-shaping the global drug trafficking map.
Posted by Jennifer Janichek
Breaking News
Tuesday, October 14th, 2008
Voters could relax marijuana penaltiesStateline.orgProposition 5: Measure requires greater leniency in drug crimesVentura County (CA) StarS.F. leads way on patient-friendly pot clubsSan Francisco (CA) Chronicle,Official: Drug problem in schoolsWheeling…
Posted by Jennifer Janichek
Breaking News
Monday, October 13th, 2008
Starting in 1996, the Vancouver Injection Drug User Study now demonstrates how incarceration creates more harm than benefit for injection drug users.
Posted by Jennifer Janichek
Breaking News
Friday, October 10th, 2008
More research demonstrates the high importance of Insite, a harm reduction medical agency for injection drug users.
Posted by Jennifer Janichek
Breaking News
Wednesday, October 8th, 2008
Over the past 20 years studies have shown the efficacy of using marijuana in medicine specifically its psychoactive ingredient, tetrahydrocannabinol. Forty billion dollars is the number of dollars up for grabs in the North American pharma market for pa…
Posted by Jennifer Janichek
Breaking News
Monday, October 6th, 2008
Numerous reports and current and former officials from the White House, the State Department and the United States Embassy in Afghanistan link brother of Afghanistan President, Ahmed Wali Karzai, to drug trafficking.